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Let's poke at the differences between scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations. A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
::interest-button is an interesting idea. It’s trying to solve the accessibility concerns of Interest Invokers — tooltips and hover cards being the go-to examples. How do they work if a user can’t hover? Slap a button everywhere is one answer. ...
Bug fixes and performance improvements
When you first start Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator, you're standing in a small office annex of the walking artillery unit you call home. A board in front of you lays out the process of firing the turret's cannon. First ...
I just ran a quick benchmark comparing the different xxHash hashing functions on an AMD Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., XXH3 is
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with will do. Or a card component ...
“Gentle A gentler world begins in the way you touch your heart. Be soft with the light inside you. Caress your body with this breath. God is nothing else but...
My rambling thoughts about the increasingly poor storytelling of Doctor Who, which has led to its cancellation.
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A runner coiled in the starting blocks, looking down a glowing purple lane/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp I originally wrote this for Claude's Fable 5, but the list applies to any real intelligence jump from any lab. Every so often a ...
Today's links AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist: If 'risk + AI = risk – AI', then 'AI = 0'. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Napster x librarians; Flickr API reciprocity; KFC's Mega Jug v diabetes ...
The broil of ideas that make up Signet City have been growing in Gareth Damian Martin's head for years and they're about fit to burst. The creator of In Other Waters and Citizen Sleeper describes their new game as a ...
I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast of logic, misdirection, and wordplay. It’s a frequent topic of conversation ...
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous...
The K-shaped bifurcation: thriving behaviors climbing above a rising Employability Line, struggling behaviors sinking below it/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp Tyler Cowen recently made the positive argument in this a16 interview. There are two main camps ...
Today's links The (real) dead economy theory: Vibes and memestocks, all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Jim Baen has had a stroke; Blame Apple for iTunes DRM; France v the internet; "Rotters"; 1901 ...
“Oh god, he’s going for the jukebox! A Human Artist’s Defense of AI Art - Asher Perlman”
There's a brand new ariaNotify() method — defined by the WAI-ARIA 1.3 Specification — that provides a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader. The Siren Song of ariaNotify() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
OpenAI just acquired Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. And if your first thought was "wait, is uv toast?", you are not alone. But here's the twist Charlie Marsh shared with me: he thinks they may ship more ...
It seems appropriate that Control Resonant drags the Remedyverse back away from Alan Wake II’s screeching horror, as it’s spent the past few weeks – and as of yesterday, about three hours of playable preview build – assuaging my fears. ...
Why stdx is not on crates.io While I think that the xxx aspect of stdx has been well received, a lot of Rust developers were suffering with the current status
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.5 LTS with bugfixes and performance improvements.
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.4 (Variegata) with bugfixes and performance improvements.
I've been running a new meditation practice for the past several months and it's working great so wanted to share. Morning Pages My meditation practice is morning pages adapted from The Artist's Way....
“So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none.”
A TUI note management app inspired by Obsidian.
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s a “science” experiment ...
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s I don’t want a screenshot ...
Props for That creates live props based things CSS can't normally see in the browser. Things like cursor position, progress values, certain form states, current time, scroll velocity. Prop For That originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certainly disheartening to see how few Buddhist groups charge nothing for the teachings and look like little more ...
We're over the hump of this week's Steam Next Fest now. The vent wraps up on Monday, so really we only have the weekend to muscle through and then we're free from the demo life. We can go back to ...
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TL;DR - A game where you get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money and spend it. Try it now: Spend Elon Musk's Money What is it You get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money. Spend it on a catalog of ...
Today's links AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Makers v dog with LED collar; Microsoft buys Linkedin; Legitimate greatness. Upcoming appearances: LA, ...
Back when I first tried a G-Sync Pulsar monitor at an Nvidia shindig in February, I clung to the hope that maybe, finally, gaming display tech had made its first real breakthrough in years. Dozens, if not hundreds of samey ...
CSS functions, the alpha() function, Grid Lanes, some things about Dialog that you might not know, CSS Wordle, and more — this is What’s !important right now. What’s !important #13: @function, alpha(), CSS Wordle, and More originally handwritten and published ...
I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used Mistral 7B Gemma 3 OpenAI OSS-20B Qwen 3 ...
Just ran a quick benchmark comparing different hashing functions on a Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., BLAKE3 on Zen 5 is crazy
When something is so obvious to you, and yet the status quo is moving in the opposite direction, congratulations, you have found an opportunity. Tt's time to get your hands
The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl’s submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of ...
“Given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs and the variety of available models, it’s often challenging to compare their behavior with or without certain skills, prompts, tools, and MCPs enabled. Introducing the MDN MCP server”Brace yourselves, MDN slop is coming. What ...